In this paper, we present an ongoing research project aimed to determine the impact of co-financing on collaboration around patients with musculoskeletal disorders. A trial legislation that allows the social insurance, social services and health care services to unite in co-financing under joint political steering has been tested in different areas in Sweden. In a series of studies, we compare ...

Health secretary Alan Johnson announced in March the identities of the first five academic health science centres in the UK, one of which is the result of a collaboration between Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. These centres are partnerships between world-class universities and leading NHS organisations, and this article examines the implications of their esta...

This document reports the results of a multi-case study of university-industry research centres at a research-intensive UK university. It identifies a series of management principles that enable successful collaboration between universities and firms. The analysis is based on information gathered during interviews with 25 individuals involved in four centres, including representatives from indu...

north darfur state has been affected by conflict since 2003 and the government has not been able to provide adequate curative health services to the people. the government has come to rely on non-governmental organizations (ngos) to provide curative health services. this study was conducted to examine the existing collaboration between government and ngos in curative health service delivery in ...

Universities in the UK have largely coped with this by changing the structural organisation of such departments. Converged services, integrated services and mixed teams have been created in the hope that the resulting structures will lead to effective collaboration. This is not as easy as it looks since library and IT staff come from different professions with distinct professional cultures. Or...

On-line multi-user virtual worlds have been used to create collaboration environments and shared virtual spaces to allow distributed teams to train, exercise or work together. Platforms such as Linden Lab's Second LifeTM or the open source community's OpenSimulator have been used to provide easily accessed facilities in which users are represented by avatars in a space designed to support their...

The study analyzed factors that motivate agricultural extension agents in Agricultural Development Programme of Abia State. Primary data were collected from 96 extension agents in Abia State, Nigeria who were selected using multi-stage random sampling technique. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, mean score, ordered logit and Spearman rank correlation. It was revealed that 58.3% o...

In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), international collaborating laboratories, provincial laboratories, and other Canadian hospital and university-based virus laboratories, the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) conducts national surveillance on human influenza viruses. This surveillance monitors influenza activity, detects and describes antigenic changes in circ...